BHU-ENG-23669165-2015

1. DRUKGYEL
LOWER SECONDARY SCHOOL
2015 DFC “STORY OF CHANGE”
“MASS CLEAN-UP CAMPAIGN
&
‘PET’ BOTTLE COLLECTION
COMPETITION”

3. FEEL
At Drukgyel School, we FELT a lot of PROBLEMS, but the one we felt
the most bothered by was WASTE. Here’s why:
* That the community was not segregating its waste bothered us.
* That only a few people are really concerned about the waste
problem bothered us.
* That waste is usually dumped at night bothered us.
* That some people were coming up with waste management
solutions and trying their best, while other people were just
dumping their waste bothered us.

4. Plastic wrappers, paper, pet bottles
are dumped everywhere.

5. FEEL
Our school is the most affected, as most of our
students have to clean up the waste every
time.
Our community is in a semi-urban area, where
there are around 200 households, with
around 1,000 people residing there.

6. USING OLD TIRES IN A NEW WAY

7. IMAGINE
We began to IMAGINE some SOLUTIONS to our
problems:
* Make the public more aware of our waste problem
* Segregate our waste
* Collect & recycle PET bottles and help the needy with
the money earned.
* Do a 'Mass Clean-Up Campaign' and a 'PET Bottle
Collection Competition', since they were the things
that the community could do the best.

8. COLLECTING ‘PET’ BOTTLES FOR RECYCLING

9. DO
To DO our SOLUTIONS, we did the following:
* We divided the children into groups and did a door-to-door campaign on waste
segregation.
* Some groups collected PET bottles; some collected plastics; and some collected
papers and other wastes.
* Some groups also cleaned the stream we have near the school.
* Our PET bottle collection competition took place among the classes, with around 16
sections, from grade 3 to 8 participating.
* We have collected two truckloads of PET bottles so far, and sold them to the
recycling agency.

10. OUR AWARENESS
CAMPAIGN MARCH
PET
BOTTLES
NOW
AT
HOME
IN
A
GARDEN

11. DRAGONS IN A GARDEN

12. TURTLE PLANTS
‘PET’ BOTTLES & RECYCLED WASTE
AS SCIENCE PROJECTS

13. SHARE
A group of volunteers was formed that
included both teachers and students.
The group thought of ways to disseminate
information about the need for a clean
community to the community.

14. SHARE
We decided on having a monthly “Green Day”,
on which students will not be allowed to bring
packaged food; we will have a plastic
collection competition, and award prizes to
the most successful teams; we will sell the
collected plastics to the recycling company.

15. SHARE
• Most important of all, teachers and students
have teamed up to go around the community
conducting the clean-up campaign and
creating awareness on waste management.
OUR STUDENTS ARE NOW AGENTS OF CHANGE

16. TASHI DELEK!
DRUKGYEL
LOWER SECONDARY SCHOOL